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Old Photographs, Recognition, Handwriting Deciphering => Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs => Topic started by: crkkh on Friday 16 April 10 14:57 BST (UK)
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This photo is my mothers neighbourhood gang (about 1925), and is not long for passing from this world...the image is simply dissappearing...
If anyone has a magic wand out there :)
Craig
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goodness me I tried but to no avail... not enough patience today sorry
xin
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Oh dear not much there
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great job mjb - I couldn't find anything -
xin
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Can't get enough detail for facial features but there's a woman in the back wearing a hat. Maybe someone else with expertise will have more luck.
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Great attempt :o ...at least some of the image has been brought forward...
Knew this was a shot in the dark...but thought I'd post it anyway :)
Craig
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mjb
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I don't know if this is of any help at all to you, but before computer enhancements were commonplace, I took a very faded ( had been sepia) photograph to a place that not only took portrait photographs but also said they could restore old pictures. They were able to make a new negative from the old faint picture. From that negative they made a a print, and it was a big improvement over what I started with. I was pleased and took some other old pictures in to have them enlarged and improved. I don't know if you can find a person who does that kind of restoration. It might be worth a try. :)
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heres a little impression
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If you have photoshop then you can do it yourself.
(Produce a negative, I meant to say)
The following tutorial will tell you how to do it
http://www.tutorialhero.com/click-16607-photo_negative_effect.php
I haven't looked but GIMP should be able to do the same....
Ray
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No more I promise
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Thank you emjaybee, you are immensely thoughtful...I really appreciate your efforts...
I know there are some things that can be done with old photographs through a darkroom...although I haven't had a darkroom in 20 years, that may be the only avebue available to improve the photo...
ANd yes, I do have Photoshop, although I haven't done much with it since I used Mac's 10 years ago...
But this does give me more to contemplate in where to go next...
Thank you all.. :)
Craig
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I don't think there's much that a photo-lab could do that we can't do now with scanners and photoshop. :) It's a matter of starting with the best scan possible, and then working from there.
Craig, if you have the original, can you try scanning it again and saving it without jpg compression? I think that must be why we can't make much from this, as the dpi shows as 300 and it is in RGB colour and is a good physical size, but it's only 55-ish kb.
There is some information on this board if you're unsure how to go about this:
Scanning: http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,198165.0.html
Resizing: http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,372537.0.html
Cheers
Prue
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Oh Pru, I shall break my promise. ;D ;D
I'm now awaiting the next scan! I promised no more - well we shall see .................. ???
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I cant stop -but is this too far away from the original?